Culture & Literature

YUFENG DESIGN, A New Return of Chinese Porcelain Art to Europe

Porcelain has been beloved in Europe for long. At the time when Johann Friedrich Böttger, the alchemist hired by Augustus II the Strong, finally discovered the recipe with a mixture of quartz, feldspar and kaolin from Meissen in 1709, hard-paste porcelain was exclusively made in China and was almost more precious than gold in Europe.  Fired at high temperatures of over 1300 Celsius, kaolin clay can produce very hard white porcelain, called “white gold” by the Europeans. The manufacturing process has been known to the Chinese for more than 1,500 years, presumably since the Han Dynasty around the year 206….

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Tangquan’s Multi-Faceted Business Model: New Vitality of the Thousand-Year-Old Hot Springs in Linyi’s Hedong District

In recent years, Tangquan in Hedong District of Linyi has developed a variety of ideas on innovation concerning public service system and tourism. The area has been following an empowerment model with different businesses, a so-called “hot springs+” integration project which has rejuvenated the thousand-year-old hot springs there.  The business model combines the current situation in Tangtou town and the innovational concept of “traveling and living as one, guest and host as one”, thus integrating the residential community into the resort business. Tangquan is aiming at building the “City of China (Linyi) Hot Spring Culture and Health Tourism”. It is…